It looks like an ad for a hair salon to me. The woman sits on the couch with fancy hair and a black eye, and the text is information about the salon, with the tag, "Look good in all you do". Presumably even after being beaten?

If the point of this ad was to raise awareness or spark conversations about domestic violence - I would expect information about a women's shelter or a hotline number to appear somewhere on the ad. All I see is another glamorization of a bruised woman.

Domestic violence isn't sexy.
It isn't hot. It isn't a great inspiration for a photo shoot. It is very real and very serious.

-1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse in her lifetime.
-Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.
-An average of three women and one man are murdered every day in the US by an intimate partner.(If you are the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), and know that you are not alone. There is hope.)

I am disgusted with the continued portrayal of women beaten, bruised, and raped - in ads, media, and photo campaigns.

This is disgusting. It is normalizing abuse. "It's okay that your husband beats you because you can still be beautiful." Abused women do NOT need to see ads like this. Men do not need to see this and glamorize abuse. Abuse-emotional, physical, sexual-is never sexy.

it is disturbing the criminal acts in advertising today, or the suggested criminal acts. in the ad for the video girls gone wild there is an assault with a guy grabbing a woman's breast spontaneously in public. that this sh*t is allowed on the airwaves and in magazine pages shows who runs society: companies with money and they do whatever they want to, despite laws or clear standards of behavior.

I saw a story about these the other day and it made me want to cry. I don't know how someone would think that this is ok, especially Heather Morris from Glee. She should know better. Whether she likes it or not she is a role model and she is glamorizing abuse. It is not right at all.

I had seen the "bruised up Barbie" pics which were bad enough but the one on the couch seems sooo much worse. Is the diamond necklace some kind of pitiful apology or worse pay off for the beating? It's not edgy. It's sexy. It's not cool. It's ignorant and sends a terrible message to our daughters. And as an artist, I feel comfortable saying that it is not art.

There are more interesting ways to draw attention to a young actress or a hair design. You are right to speak out. Between the JC Penney tshirts and these campaigns, I wonder about the art directors and marketers of the world. Do none of them have daughters or do they just not care?

Oh my goodness. And I thought the FB meme's for breast cancer awareness were distasteful.....this brings a whole new meaning to inappropriate! Thank you for sharing these--bringing awareness to what IS important, and for linking up to JBE!

Ugh! Let those people live through an abusive relationship then see if they can 'push their advertising limit' that way. This is so disgusting and makes me sick. I have known women here who stays in their marriage bruises and all just to safe their faces from the society. Thanks for sharing this!

This is incredible. Not only is it in poor taste and irresponsible... but I find no artistic value in it. I don't see any limits being pushed at all - it just seems stupid.Violence is NOT sexy, should NOT be glamorized, and is NOT smart advertising.Thanks for speaking up, Tracie.

Ugh. Just like the FB meme which *supposedly* will raise awareness for breast cancer, this also makes no sense to me at all. Seriously. Who thought this would be a good idea?? Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and for linking up to JBE!

You people are all a bunch of drones. Nobody wants to hear your sniveling. As if the only way women could ever get a black eye is from an @$$#0|e they're in a relationship with. It -automatically- means "domestic violence". You people need psychological help. It is no more unacceptable to show a female with a "black eye" than it is to show a male with a black eye.